Heyerdahl

American  

[hey-er-dahl] / ˈheɪ ərˌdɑl /

noun

1. Thor 1914–2002, Norwegian ethnologist and author.

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Heyerdahl British  

/ ˈhɛiərdaːl /

noun

1. Thor (tɔː). 1914–2002, Norwegian anthropologist. In 1947 he demonstrated that the Polynesians could originally have been migrants from South America, by sailing from Peru to the Pacific Islands of Tuamotu in the Kon-Tiki , a raft made of balsa wood. DNA testing in the late 1990s indicated that such a migration did not actually take place

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Example Sentences

There was only a middle-aged woman on a middle-aged show, correctly answering clues about the Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, or the British adventurer Robert Falcon Scott.

From Washington Post

"Fortunately, they are all improving. We can say that they are out of danger," chief physician Fridtjof Heyerdahl at Oslo University Hospital told the paper.

From BBC

In their paper, Dr. Estrada and his colleagues draw parallels between this scenario and the claims of Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian explorer who sailed on a raft in 1947 from South America to Polynesia.

From New York Times

Heyerdahl was convinced that people from Peru had populated the remote Pacific islands, and wanted to show it was possible.

From The Guardian

In 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl made a journey by raft from South America to Polynesia to demonstrate the voyage was possible.

From BBC